Before working at Keystone Civic Ventures, Chris led the newsroom at WHYY, growing it from 20 or so to 50-plus employees. Launched the NewsWorks.org local news website in 2010, to feature coverage by WHYY newsroom plus a network of partners, bloggers and freelance contributors. Launched the NewsWorks Tonight nightly radio newsmagazine in 2011, the First weekly newsmagazine in 2009 and the Pulse weekly health/science show in 2014. Led the Tight Times, Tough Choices city budget workshops and numerous other civic engagement efforts. Wrote and narrated yearly Christmas radio play, and wrote the weekly Centre Square audio news commentary.